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Renaldo Hill – May 30, 2018 Download PDF version

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Assistant Defensive Backs Coach Renaldo Hill

(What’s this journey been like for you, to get to the level where you are an assistant coach in the NFL?) – “I think the biggest thing is you come across so many people and they always talk about having a plan. When we’re done with football, we’re still going to be young. My thing is I always wanted to be connected to the game still. Regardless of where I went, everybody assumed I’d be a coach. At that point, I didn’t want to run from what people expected and what I probably expected myself was to be. I started getting closer to the coaches, sitting in staff meetings with those guys, just trying to pick their brain – whether it was offensively or defensively, just to try to stay close to the game and learn a little bit more, not even from my position as a player, but learn how to transition as a coach. I was already making those steps probably in Year 7, going into my later years of trying to figure out how to make that transition.”

(When did you first sit into a coach’s meeting?) – “I would always come up here on Tuesdays with Coach Bowles (Todd Bowles) when we were here back in (2008). He would give me a quick brief of the game plan and I’d go take it off on my own and then try to re-convene with him later just to try to see what he’s picked up and what I’ve picked up and see if I was on the right path. Maybe he had a few notes of what to identify and I’d just try to take it from there; but I was always up here on my off days, whether that was loading my computer on Mondays, so I’d already have my film ready for Tuesday. I was preparing myself just to make that transition.”

(What did it mean to have a former player as a coach when you were playing? Because for players, that’s what they say. “It’s great to have a former player because they know where we’ve been.”) –“Definitely. (Coaches who have played) understand and have been in those shoes. They know as far as coverage, where you need to be, what can you disguise a little bit and where you can get into trouble. Taking all of those things into account, it definitely helped me as a player. Those are just things I want to be able to pass along to these guys and let them know to continue to use the resources around them, which is the players they are around with. I talked to Reshad (Jones) today just about ‘How many other safeties do you communicate with, even in the offseason?’ Because we’re seeing a lot of the same things. They may have a different view of it; but it’s just giving you a different outlook. When you have that coach who has already been in those shoes, it definitely makes that transition a lot easier. I want him to continue to explore and grow. We always talk about there’s more meat on the bone and that’s just another way of getting with other people around you who know the game.”

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